• Tic Tac Toe -Theme the X’s and O' after the season
  For Thanksgiving, paper pilgrims and turkeys, Christmas, Angels and Shepherds etc… Dray a large grid on the chalkboard or poster board. Each playing piece had a song listed on the back appropriate to the situation.
• Yearly theme game-- Take the theme of the year and make up a song to go with each letter in the words or a song for each word. Let the kids pick a word and sing the song that correlates with it.

• Melting Snowman—similar to hangman. Make a snowman with separate pieces for each section of the body, hat, eyes, nose, arms, etc. Start out with a complete snowman. Have a name of a song the children have to guess (like in hangman). If they guess a wrong letter, take off a piece of the snowman. Try to guess song before the snowman is gone!
• Un-decorate a Christmas Tree
• Hide the musical snowman

• Ring in the New Year (punch out board with bells behind it, songs inside bells)
• Do a Count Down of the Favorite Songs from the year _____. If done in advance, have kids write down favorite songs so it is a true countdown from your primary.

• Cut out a bunch of hearts with song names on back of some and “love messages” on others. “Heart attack” the room. Kids pick hearts and try to find songs.
• Make “heart puzzles”—assembled puzzles show different people who love us love (Christ, parents, family, primary teachers, etc.) Sing matching song.
• Make or purchase a white mailbox. A few weeks prior to Valentine’s, have kids write down their favorite songs. On Valentines, have Valentines for each child, and their song on it. Pull out Valentine (have a child “get the mail”) and sing their song, then give them the Valentine. Can personalize Valentine’s (i.e. Roses, are red, violets are blue, __child’s name___ loves Nephi’s Courage, and I do too!”) Can pass out remaining valentines, or use them as fillers for several weeks.
• Love Notes in the mail—have “mail”—all the songs are “love” related (Jesus said LOVE everyone, I Fell My Savior’s LOVE, LOVE One Another, My Heavenly Father LOVES Me, LOVE is Spoken Here, Reverance is LOVE, Dearest Mother, I LOVE You, etc.
• Hide the musical heart

• Make a kite out of colorful paper. Make a tail out of string and attach nows to it. On the back of each now, write a song. Kids pick off bows.
• Hide the musical shamrock

• Leprechauns & shamrocks
  This is a poster to help us learn songs. In each of the leprechauns hands are shamrocks that have phrases from the new song. I have also had the letter from each word on the shamrocks and they have to put them in the right order.

• Make a poster with slits to push pictures through—grassy lawn with slits for Easter eggs to pop through. Each egg represents a class. If the class is singing well, the egg pops out. If all eggs pop out, a chick is added to the picture (representing the completed song)
• Easter Basket—plastic eggs inside. Have kids pick eggs and song is inside. VARIATION: put objects inside that represent things that happened when Christ dies for us (ie nail, money, spices, etc.) Discuss and sing a song that would help reinforce why that is important.
• Hide plastic eggs around the room. Go on an egg hunt and find songs inside eggs.
• Eggsellent Singing—Blow Out raw eggs, color them. When the dye is dry, roll up a piece of paper with a osng title on it and stuff it inside. Then you let the kids crack the eggs open (it can be a mess so do it over a bowl or trashcan). 
• Find the Sheep: take a sheep graphic there was a good one in the friend magazine last month, make about 8 sheep and write a song on the back. Tell the kids that we need to be good shepherds and bring in the lost sheep have them look under seats and around room for the sheep. Good for Easter (talk about the Good Shepherd and how he’s looking out for us). OR have one sheep and hide it while a child is away from the room—have kids sing louder when the child gets closer to it and quieter when they are away from it to help them find the sheep.
• Easter Cantata -sing a story:  Make a book with poster boards that have the words or the title of the song and pictures from church magazines.  I started mine with Jesus Once Was A Little Child and then ended it with "I  Wonder When He Comes Again"  when we've done this in my ward it's been used for the entire sharing time.  We read scriptures in between the songs and tell the entire Easter story.  I've even had somebody who could play the violin come in and play with the piano so the kids would know this was an extra special day.
• Sing a Story of Jesus’ life using songs and pictures:
  Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus, pg. 36 (Samuel, GAK 314)
  He Sent His Son, pg. 34 (Nativity, GAK 213)
  Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, pg. 57 (Jesus Ministry, GAK 213)
  Did Jesus Really Live Again, pg. 64 (Crucifixion, GAK 230)
  Jesus Has Risen, pg. 70 (Resurrection, GAK 239)
  Easter Hosanna, pg. 68 (Christ in Americas, GAK 316)
  Bear testimony that Jesus will come again—
  When He Comes Again, pg. 82 (Christ and the Children, GAK 608)

• Umbrella w/raindrops— Cut out raindrops and tape them to an umbrella, let the kids take turns picking a raindrop-- it can have songs to sing/questions for a specific song. etc. *This is easy to tie in to a spiritual message - talk about how the prophet is like the umbrella and if we follow him he will protect us from the storms of life or the Savior is like the umbrella, or obedience is like the umbrella -etc.
• Umbrella/rain--I use a real umbrella & a mist bottle (squirt bottle) with plain water in it. I use the finest mist so no one really gets wet. As we are learning a song, the better they get the words and melody the more it “rains”. I spray on top of the umbrella and the child is holding the umbrella. Once in a while I get a little crazy and spray toward the audience… oops….
• Make a bird house out of a plastic bleach bottle with a hole cut out on one side. Write songs on strips of paper and tie to yarn strips that will hang out the hole to look like grass or worms for the children to pull out.
• Colorful Singing: Make a rainbow with construction paper - on the back of each strip put a song - then the kids can build the rainbow or take a color off - maybe under the rainbow you can have a quote phrase from a song so that when you've completely removed the rainbow the kids can find the phrase.

• From the most recent general conf. pick a song that matches up with talks from 1^{st presidency and the apostles. Kids pick a quote from the talk and read it, match it with the picture of the man who said it and on the back it will say which song. OR, once the picture is picked, on the back will be a scripture clue to the matching song.}
• Have necklaces with pictures of messages from several talks. Sing songs that go with the picture necklaces.
• Prophet Themes: Each prophet seems to have one or two "themes" they are remembered for.  I pulled out my Gospel Art kit and read the back of the pictures of each of the prophets.  At the very bottom they have quotes or the things they were known for in their presidency.  I chose about six prophets that I could think of songs that my kids knew.  I then had the kids choose a prophet, try to guess if they knew what that prophet was known for, and then we talked a little bit about that thing and sang a song that went with it. 
• Pres. Hinckley’s 6 Bees—6 small beehives (“be smart,” “be prayerful,” “be true,” “be humble,” “be grateful,” & “be clean” listed) and bees (matching song)—try to match up and sing
• T.N.T. Pres. Benson gave a talk about how living prophets have TNT—Today’s News Today. Take an empty Pringles can, cover it with red paper and write TNT on it, stick a piece of string through the lid, to look like a fuse. On slips of paper, write things our prophet said or asked us to do at conference. Have a matching song to sing with that quote. When the kids sing the song, pass the TNT. When the song ends, whoever is holding it opens it for the next slip of paper.
• Listening to our prophets is like putting on the Armor of God—dress-up in armor:
  Girdle of Truth—Stand For the Right, pg. 159
  Breastplate of Righteousness—Choose the Right Way, pg. 160
  Shoes, preparation of the gospel peace—A Young Man Prepared, pg. 166
  Shield of Faith—Faith, pg. 96
  Helmet of Salvation—He Sent His Son, pg. 34
  Sword of the Spirit—The Holy Ghost, pg. 105

• Make flowers with pipe cleaner stems. Write a number on back of each flower to represent a song that you have listed on a list. Kids pick flower, sing song, and then child places flower in a vase. At end, show them what a pretty arrangement they have made.
• Hide the musical flower
• Pin the bee on flowers poster -- This is just like pin the tail on the donkey game, however I have a poster board full of flowers. The flowers have #’s on them. The kids pin the bee on the flower and that tells us which song to sing, or if we’re working on a song, how many times in a row we will sing it. Of course we use a different “voice” each time. (cowboy voice, opera voice, MoTab voice, Mouse voice, boy voice, girl voice, etc.

• Squirt gun/crying Mother poster
  I use this poster for Mother’s day and for after the program. I drew a picture of a mother’s face, big on a poster board. I cut out her eye balls and hold (usually ask for help) two squirt guns in the holes. As the children sing beautifully, the mother (cries) as she is touched by the beauty. This can get out of hand easily, but each time I have used it, the spirit is strong and the kids try really hard to sing beautifully. I tell them sometimes, they bring tears to my eyes…. This has to be done in “good taste!”
• Tape record sounds of things mother’s do for us: washing clothes, cooking, washing dishes, vacuum, toilet flushing, car honk, practice piano, sewing machine, etc. Kids try to figure out what it is, sing a matching song or a Mother’s Day/Family song in between.
• Audio tape Moms in your ward singing lines from a song—play the song and have the kids guess who is singing it.
• Hats Off to Mothers (poem from Friend)
• Mystery Singing—find clue to songs, first letter of each sng you sing spells out answer to your mystery, in this case, the word “MOTHER”:

My Heavenly Father Loves Me

On a Golden Springtime

The Church of Jesus Christ

Help Me Dear Father to Freely Forgive

Early to Bed and Early to Rise

Reverence is Love

• Top Ten: we've gone into RS and Priesthood to sing the top song for them, and then we post the poster at the church exit so all could see it.  People love to see where their "favorite" ended up. Sent a form around to each of the adults in the ward to list their favorite Primary song and a short explanation as to why. I would read the explanation and the children would have to guess who it was who had wrote it. On Mother's Day we used the forms from the mothers; on Father's Day we used the forms from the fathers... Often I would pull the form of the parents who were visiting to help children with talks and
  prayers. And we always sang the bishop's favorite when he came to visit. It was great fun and the children loved finding out all the grown-ups' favorite songs.

• Make a Dad’s face (moustache, bushy eyebrows, nose, lips, eyes, ears) and play a version of “pin the tail on the donkey.” Songs on backs of pieces. Last song, re-arrange the face correctly.
• Gather 6-7 shirts of different fathers in the ward—ones they think their kids will recognize. In the pocket, put Dad’s favorite primary song. After the kids guess who’s shirt it is, put it on the child and sing the dad’s song.
• Audio tape Dads in your ward singing lines from a song—play the song and have the kids guess who is singing it.
• Go Fishing
• Pictures of Scriptural fathers or Latter-Day Prophets—do a matching game (match name to picture or clue about them to picture)

• Summer shell pick—fill a beach bucket with some sand and place shells inside—let kids take turns finding and picking shells
• Watermelon -I took a big piece of red poster board and a cut it into a semi-circle, then I put a green border around the curve so it looked like a big piece of watermelon - I cut out a bite along the top- then I cut big black seeds and put the names of songs on the back of the seeds
• Christmas in July.  Helps keep the songs in their minds.  I come in wearing a scarf, mittens, cap and the kids love it.

• Make little American flags with paper and straws—wave the falgs as you sing patriotic songs. (bendy straws make it easy to wave if the bend is on the bottom and you attach the flag to the top) March as you wave and sing.
• Firework singing - I took a black poster board and then I took black tissue paper and glued glittery looking fireworks bursts on the pieces of black tissue paper, I taped them onto the poster board.  Then the board said something about Sparkling Singers or something like that - it's also a fun way to do a punch board for summer - over each whole you tape the tissue paper firework then the kids punch through or burst through the fireworks to get the song.

• For pioneer time I’ve taken a piece of butcher paper and mapped out the pioneer trail and then I’ve placed wagons along the trail at key spots. The kids pick a wagon and I tell them a quick something about that spot and we sing the song on the back of the wagon.
• Assemble a large map of where the pioneers traveled (enlarge all the states from New York to SLC, UT and have songs matching something historical that happened in that state—ie sing I Love to See the Temple for Ohio, because of the 1st temple, Golden plates for New York, I Belong to the Church for Utah, B of M Stories for Penn., etc.). Jr primary can pick states off in order, srs can put them on the board in order.
• Attach a seagull to pole “fishing pole style.” Print off several clip art pictures of crickets and attach paper clips to them. Tell the kids the pioneer story of the crickets, sing pioneer songs that are under the cricket they pick with the seagull. Or have the crickets represent different ways to sing a song, which row in primary doesn’t sing or does sing, how many times you sing a certain phrase in a song, etc.
• Make a campfire.
• Shake little containers (i.e. gladware) of cream (about ¼-1/3 cup) to make butter—use as rhythm instruments. (Keep cream cold until singing time!) Have bread when singing time is over with their butter.
• Make parts of a wagon out of construction paper. Songs on backs of pieces. Assemble the wagon—have kids take turns putting wagon together.

• Pin the bee on flowers poster
  This is just like pin the tail on the donkey game, however I have a poster board full of flowers. The flowers have #’s on them. The kids pin the bee on the flower and that tells us which song to sing, or if we’re working on a song, how many times in a row we will sing it. Of course we use a different “voice” each time. (cowboy voice, opera voice, MoTab voice, Mouse voice, boy voice, girl voice, etc.
• Birthday cake too many candles
  I made up birthday cake the size of a poster board. I filled it with candles. I tell the kids, I’m getting WAY TOO OLD! And I need them to help me get some of these candles off. The candles have the #’s and ideas on them. The kids love to help me not be so OLD. Can also be turned around and made to put the candles on the cake. The candles are separate and can be taped on and off as everything is laminated.

• Boy with backpack
  This is a poster of a boy facing away and we’re looking at his back. He’s wearing a backpack that I’ve slit the top of. I attached a large gallons size Zip-lock bag onto it. Inside I have pictures of books, ruler, pencils, erasers, ect… things you use for school. I have used to to “fill” the backpack to get ready for school and to empty it for Spring break or the end of the school year. On the back of each of the items are the #’s or ideas for the songs we’re learning. OR Fill a real backpack.
• Tape record sounds of fall: school bus brakes, children at recess, school bell, principal on microphone, raking leaves, chain saw cutting firewood. Kids try to identify sounds in between singing songs about fall.
• "Top ten" countdown.  I don't know when your program is because this idea requires a little prep time.  What I did was go through the Children's Songbook and make a list of all the songs the kids know. Then I photocopied the page and had each child go through and choose their top ten songs, with a star by the top three.  Then I tallied the votes and on the day of the program we did a countdown, from the 10th most popular to the 1st.

• Autumn leaves on a tree. Draw trunk and branches of a tree without any leaves on a poster board. Cut out leaves of red, yellow, orange, and brown, and write songs on back. Tape leaves to branches of tree and have kids pick them off and sing the song.
• Use the leaves (from above) and attach to a fan. Have them “blowing.” Kids pick leaf.
• Hide the musical pumpkin

• Assemble a jack-o-lantern
• I use a real pumpkin. Not carved. I made different eyes, noses, and mouths and let the children choose faces and put them on the pumpkin. Duct tape works best to attach them. I laminate everything so I can use it over and over. Black construction paper works best for the features. Except for the teeth.
• Plastic pumpkin with “seeds” in it—songs on seeds
• “Trick or Sing” poster. Draw a giant haunted house on a poster with several “doors” On the front of each door, put a Halloween picture (ghost, tree w/owl, tombstones, etc.) Behind each door is a song or a “trick.” Tricks: “do the hokey pokey,” “sing the Barney song,” etc.

Gratitude word game

G =Give said the little stream (I'm small I know but wherever I go)
R = choose the Right way (I am learning the teachings of Jesus)
A = dAre to do right (you have a work that no other can do)
T = my counTry (it's here where my home and my loved ones are found)
I = nephI's Courage (laughing and mocking they said he shouln't try)
T = i Think the world is glorious (the birds and bees and blossoms...)
U = the church of jesUs christ (I'll follow him in faith)
D = holD to the rod ('tis strong and bright and true)
E = childrEn all over the world (he understands each tongue)
Have your pianist play a song and for thanksgiving I'm going to have the kids listen
to the song and figure the thing the song talks about that we should be thankful for.  So for instance if she plays Book of Mormon Stories - then the answer would be Book of Mormon or if she played Head Shoulders Knees and Toes - Our Bodies, or if she played Latter-day Prophets - Pres. Hinckley, or if she played I love to See the Temple - temples, or Daddy's Homecoming - dads.  etc.  I think it sounds like fun.  It also is a different way of doing name that tune only I guess you could call it name that thing to be thankful for.

• Assemble a snowman, song names on parts.
• Snowball fight (paper toss) I give each child a piece of paper. Make sure you stress the fact that we’re in the Church and sometimes we “toss” snowballs! (be careful or this activity can get TOO ROWDY). The kids,(with teachers help sometimes) write their names & their favorite Primary Song. I invite a class at a time to wad & toss the “snowballs” toward me. Then, I pick up a snowball and we sing that song. This activity serves a dual purpose; I keep the snowballs and make a list of the children and their favorite song. Then I have my Top 10 favorites list!
• Bowling for Snowmen--Use Snowman clip art, print out several. Tape them to water bottles. Cover a basketball with batting and wrap white string around it to hold the batting in place. The kids try to knock over a snowman with a snowball! The Snowman will have the #’s on them for the songs.
• Hide the musical Christmas tree

• Assemble a nativity scene with song names on the characters and animals.
• Poster board of a Christmas tree: make all kinds of decorations for it - the decorations had the song names and page numbers on the back, and the decoration had something to do with the song.  The children were able to choose a decoration, but then their class had to sing the song well to put it on the tree. There were "special" decorations for our opening, closing, and reverence songs as well.  The star was reserved for the last song we sang before Christmas - 'Silent Night' - and I let the most reverent child put it on the tree.
• Make a Christmas tree (small real one or out of paper) and have the kids decorate it with ornaments (songs on ornaments). The following week, put “presents” under the tree they decorated and have them open them to find a song or questions to a song they are working on, or put things in the presents of how to sing a song they are working on (“girls sing,” or “you lead,” or “clap the beat,” etc.). Another idea—have them pick an ornament and a present—one has the song, the other has how to sing it.
• Similar to above idea—have songs on nativity pieces, and how to sing inside gofts. Tell kids that one gift we can give to Christ is the gift of song. One child is chosen to pick a nativity piece, one is chosen to open a gift. Sing “chosen” song in that “style” chosen.
• Have a stocking filled with little tiny presents and a tag attached stating a gift that Heavenly Father and Jesus have given to us.  Also have a white stocking for Jesus and when a child drew out a gift, they in turn had to write on a piece of paper something they could give Jesus for Christmas and try to do throughout the year, then they put it in the white stocking.  Then the child that drew out the tiny gift, hid it and we did the hot and cold game while singing a song. Keep all the slips from that year still in Jesus' stocking and take them out the next year and see how the kids did over the last year.  Also passed slips out to all of the kids so the stocking is full of gifts for Jesus from the whole Primary.
• I am doing "pass the parcel".  I am wrapping my Wiseman first, then around the Wiseman, my shepherds and around them baby Jesus and so on.  The kids will pass the gift around the room to bells or music and wherever the music stops, that child will open the first layer of the gift.  He or she will place the nativity piece on the table and we will sing a song.  The process is done again until every piece is unwrapped and we have a whole nativity at the front of the room.
• Another fun way to do a tune guessing game is to have them wear a headband or hat then have names of songs with velcro (it will stick to one of those terry headbands)on the backs of the song cards.  You put a card on their forehead/hat and the primary kids give them clues or you can do it like 20 questions where the person with the hat asks yes or no questions and tries to figure out what song he's wearing.
• I would have a short description of what the song was about, or a trivia question about the song (I'd already given them the information in an earlier Singing Time), or an historical description of the song (again, I'd have already told them the answers in previous Singing Times). The kids would be able to tell me how many note they would need to guess, and the pianist would play that many notes. After they guessed the song we would sing it.
• Name that tune--I did this at Christmas time, and I had a big poster of a christmas tree, and whoever guessed the right answer got to put a decoration on the tree. The class that guessed the most correct answers got to put the star on the tree. Because we were doing just Christmas songs, I used the book "Our Latter-Day Hymns: the Stories and the Messages" for most of my clues, and we stuck with the Christmas songs in the hymnal or in the Children's Songbook.
• I made each child a felt Christmas ornament. It is a heart that says "Have a song in your heart".  Then on the back of some of the ornaments will be a number.  I will then see who has #1 on the back of their ornament. They get to come up and pick an angel ornament that I made and which has a Christmas song on the back.  They can then hang the angel on a small Christmas tree that I will bring in. I cut white card stock in a heart shape and wrote on that.  Then glued to the red felt.
• A matching game using symbols of Christmas and pictures of the Savior.  They played it like the memory game and once they made a match, we'd sing the Christmas song.
• True Meaning of Christmas—put small replicas of star, the color red, Fir Tree, Bell, Candle, Gift Bow, Candy Cane, and a Wreath in a stocking or bag. Have kids pull one out, tell them why that is part of Christmas, sing song that emphasizes it’s true meaning for Christmas
• Put up a cut-out of a manager, and in your had have a whole bunch of long, yellow strips of paper. Explaine that the paper was the hay for the manger and that we need to fill the manger with enough hay for the Baby Jesus to rest on. There was the name of a Christmas song from the Hymnal and the Children's Songbook on each piece of hay.  The children who were reverent got to choose a piece of hay and then put it on the manger. At the end of Singing Time, the most-reverent child was called upon to put the cut-out of the baby Jesus on top of the hay.
• Assemble a Nativity—bring three extra pieces_--under the three extra pieces put the letters J-O-Y. Under the other pieces put songs. Try to find all three letters before singing time is over.
• Bring a Nativity set to Primary.--On the bottom of each piece, tape a slip of paper with either the title of a Christmas hymn/Primary song or a question about Christmas written on it. You might use some of the following questions:
    a.. What city were Mary and Joseph traveling to when it was time for Baby
  Jesus to be born? (Bethlehem. Luke 2:4-6);
    b.. When Jesus was born, where was He laid? (In a manger. Luke 2:7);
    c.. What happened to the shepherds who were watching their flocks near
  Bethlehem? (An angel of the Lord came and declared the glad tidings. Luke
  2:8-10);
    d.. What did the multitude of heavenly hosts say to the shepherds? ("Glory
  to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Luke
  2:13-14);
    e.. Why did Joseph name the baby Jesus? (An angel revealed it to Joseph.
  Matt. 1:20-21);
    f.. Whom did the Wise Men visit before going to Bethlehem and finding
  Jesus? (King Herod. Matt. 2:1-3);
    g.. What gifts did the Wise Men bring Jesus? (Gold, frankincense, and
  myrrh. Matt. 2:11);
    h.. Why didn't the Wise Men return to King Herod to tell him where Jesus
  was? (They were warned in a dream to not return. Matt. 2:12);
    i.. What was Joseph told to do after the visit of the Wise Men, and why?
  (He was told to flee to Egypt because Herod would try to kill Jesus. Matt.
  2:13);
    j.. What happened to all of the little children in and near Bethlehem two
  years old and under when King Herod found out that the Wise Men were not
  coming back? (They were killed. Matt. 2:16).